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The article analyzes the results of a sociological study of the prospects for improving the system of social protection of graduates of institutional institutions in Uzbekistan. The focus groups were used to study the education, employment, socio-psychological and socio-economic conditions of young people who graduated from an educational institution. The quota selection method was purposefully formed from 18-25-year-old graduates of the head office. the procedures established by the legislation, graduating young people face regular problems in the issue of…
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This article discusses the issues of adoption, foster care and the appointment of guardians and trustees, as well as issues related to the upbringing of children deprived of parental care, innovations in family law and the placement of children deprived of parental care.
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This paper, produced for the Know Violence global learning initiative, looks at the violence children experience in closed institutions in the Central Asian countries, specifically the former Soviet republics: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. In these countries, despite considerable efforts to develop alternatives, the number of children placed in various residential care units remains extremely high. In-depth interviews with local experts and focus group discussions in these four countries were the main method of gathering data as well as desk research focussing…
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The Transformative Monitoring for Enhanced Equity (TransMonEE) Database captures a vast range of data relevant to social and economic issues relevant to the situation and wellbeing of children, young people and women in countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The database is updated every year, thanks to the collaboration of National Statistical Offices (NSOs).
NSOs that are part of the TransMonEE regularly come together in network meetings with the aim of strengthening collaboration and enhancing the quality and usefulness of national data on key indicators of child…
Meant to highlight the maxim that every child deserves the best that we all have to give; this book provides a review of progress made since The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It contains reports from 21 countries on the status of the rights of the child. The reporting countries are: Australia, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, India, Iran, Japan, Portugal, Romania, Scotland, Serbia, Solomon Islands, Spain, the Netherlands, the UK, the USA, Uzbekistan and Venezuela. There are no reports from Africa.
At the time of publication, 195 countries had…
This Country Care Review includes the care-related concluding observations on the third and fourth periodic reports of Uzbekistan, adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child at its sixty-third session (27 May–14 June 2013), as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country Profile.
The purpose of the current consultancy is to continue to provide technical assistance to the Government of Uzbekistan in strengthening the system of prevention of juvenile offending with a focus on prevention of placement of children in the closed institutions. The consultancy will cover the following main directions:
- Strengthening mechanisms to prevent placement of children and young people into the closed institutions.
- Strengthening capacities of training institutions in designing and delivering pre and in-service training curricula based on child rights standards…
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Depriving the liberty of children should be a measure of last resort and for the shortest appropriate period of time. Therefore, UNICEF is working with Prosecutor's General Office, the Women's Committee of Uzbekistan, Republican Family Center and the Republican Center of Social Adaptation of Children (RCSAC) to assess the situation of girls and boys in specialized correction-educational colleges (for children aged 14-16 years old) and specialized correction-educational schools (for children aged 11-14 years old) and to implement their reintegration plans.
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UNICEF is seeking a Child Protection Officer in Uzbekistan. The Child Protection Officer (TA) is to be used in a Country Office (CO) where the Child Protection Program is a key component of the Country Program. The Child Protection Officer reports to the Child Protection Specialist for overall management of EU funded project “Protecting children affected by migration”. The Officer provides professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for this EU funded project through the application of theoretical and technical skills in researching,…